The Business Model: The Value Proposition

The central part of the business model is the value proposition: this is the (probably conceptual rather than concrete) claim that is being put before the customer as to why she or he should buy the product. A very basic value proposition is to provide a commodity product which is cheaper to buy than its competitors.

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The Business Model: Market Segments

The market segment or segments chosen for exploitation by an entrepreneur in a particular product market represents one of the six component parts of the business model. The concept of segmentation focuses on the idea that it is not only ineffective to try to market a product to everyone it can actually be counter-productive.

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The Business Model: Component Parts

Although, as is common in writing about business and management, there are several variants, it is probably most common to think of the business model as comprising of six component parts. As previously described, the business model itself is the (conceptual) means by which an organization seeks to add value to a product offering, to communicate that value to customers and the means of collecting the compensation for that value from those customers.

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The Business Model: Identifying Innovation in Environmental Change

In the previous article, I wrote about Peter Drucker’s recommendations for sources of innovation in creating the business model, which centred on the possibility of creating new goods and services, of restructuring the business organization and in using new inputs in an existing product as a means of adding value.

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The Business Model: Sources of Innovation

In the previous articles, I have written about the importance of value in the creation and establishment of the business model. Clearly, there is a need for the entrepreneur to find new ways of creating, distributing and capturing value and, indeed, no less a management guru than Peter Drucker considered innovation to be the crucial aspect of the successful entrepreneurial venture.

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The Business Model: What Is Value?

I wrote previously that a business model is the concept by which a business creates and distributes value to customers and then ensures it captures the rewards for that value. Value itself is the quality, feature or utility which is added to a product offering to persuade customers to pay a premium for that product. That is, it is that which separates a commodity from a product.

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The Business Model: Introduction


A business model is the means by which a company establishes its stream of revenue from customers. It may take many forms, from the very simple to the very complex. In management discourse, the business model is considered to be the means by which organizations create, distribute and capture value.

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